The number sense : how the mind creates mathematics /
Dehaene, a mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist, begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals, including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees, can perform simple mathematical calculations. He goes on to describe ingenious experiments that show that human infants also have a rud...
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Μορφή: | Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Our Numerical Heritage
- Talented and Gifted Animals
- A Horse Named Hans
- Rat Accountants
- How Abstract Are Animal Calculations?
- The Accumulator Metaphor
- Number-Detecting Neurons?
- Fuzzy Counting
- The Limits of Animal Mathematics
- From Animal to Human
- Babies Who Count
- Baby Building: Piaget's Theory
- Piaget's Errors
- Younger and Younger
- Babies' Power of Abstraction
- How Much Is 1 plus 1?
- The Limits of Infant Arithmetic
- Nature, Nurture, and Number
- The Adult Number Line
- 1, 2, 3, and Beyond
- Approximating Large Numbers
- The Quantity Behind the Symbols
- The Mental Compression of Large Numbers
- Reflexive Access to Number Meaning
- A Sense of Space
- Do Numbers Have Colors?
- Intuitions of Number
- Beyond Approximation
- The Language of Numbers
- A Short History of Number
- Keeping a Permanent Trace of Numerals
- The Place-Value Principle
- An Exuberant Diversity of Number Languages
- The Cost of Speaking English
- Learning to Label Quantities
- Round Numbers, Sharp Numbers
- Why Are Some Numerals More Frequent Than Others?
- Cerebral Constraints on Cultural Evolution
- Small Heads for Big Calculations
- Counting: The ABC of Calculation
- Preschoolers as Algorithm Designers
- Memory Appears on the Scene
- The Multiplication Table: An Unnatural Practice?
- Verbal Memory to the Rescue
- Mental Bugs
- Pros and Cons of the Electronic Calculator
- Innumeracy: Clear and Present Danger?
- Teaching Number Sense
- Geniuses and Prodigies
- A Numerical Bestiary.